Mexican architect Francisco Pardo has created a partly underground weekend home that is meant to exist in "pleasant tension" with the natural landscape.
The latest projects from Mexican architecture firm Francisco Pardo Arquitecto, including a nineteenth-century house, converted into offices and a restaurant.
Completed in 2020 in Valle de Bravo, Mexico. Images by Diego Padilla, Sandra Pereznieto. A couple of hours outside of Mexico City, the rural lake town of Valle de Bravo sits in a valley between mountains, offering perennially agreeable.
Completed in 2020 in Valle de Bravo, Mexico. Images by Diego Padilla, Sandra Pereznieto. A couple of hours outside of Mexico City, the rural lake town of Valle de Bravo sits in a valley between mountains, offering perennially agreeable.
Metropolis A Reuse Renaissance Continues to Reshape Mexico City Two projects in the Mexican capital show how adaptive reuse can itself adapt to social, economic, and spatial circumstances. Courtesy Gabriel Monroy The practice of converting aging buildings for different, more timely functions isn’t new in Mexico City. As in other global capitals, the shift from manufacturing to service industries and evolving demographic patterns have produced a growing stock of abandoned or under-occupied structures, many with great potential. Coinciding with it is the need for spaces that fit the changing dynamics of today’s urban economies and that accommodate models of living and working, which didn’t exist a few decades ago or not in the neighborhoods where they have rapidly emerged recently.